love-apple (n.)
old name for "tomato," 1570s, corresponding to French pomme d'amour, German Liebesapfel, but the reason for the term remains obscure. One guess is that it is a corruption of Italian pomo de'Mori or Spanish pome dei Moro, literally "Moorish apple."
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